+WARNING: CONTAINS SWEARING+

Video of homes burning on Foothill Road in Ventura, California.

In the video, filmed on December 6, the filmer can be heard saying: "Holy s**t, I can feel the heat."

Fire engines drive past at speed going in opposite directions.

In a second clip seen here, filmed higher up in the hills, the filmer again describes the shocking scene: "The fire jumped the road ... just got another house, man."

"I'm getting the f**k out of here," he adds as a fire engine speeds past and the camera shows a hillside on fire. "There's a house right there," he says.

He later wrote online: "(In the video) the fire is jumping the road, starting houses on fire in the city below the foothills. Hot and smoky, hard to breathe."

The filmer says he spent six hours "on the fire line" on Foothill Road (in Ventura, California).

He writes: "I went to help friends who live in the foothills of Ventura. I couldn't find them but they are fine. They did lose their home to the fire.

"Also helped other people get their RV (recreational vehicle) out from their backyard, unsure if their house is still standing."

The Thomas Fire, which burned in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, was the largest of the Southern California wildfires and reportedly became the largest wildfire in the US state's modern history.

6 hours on the fire line on foothill rd.
I went to help friends who live in the foothills of ventura. I ciuldnt find them but they are fine. They did lose their home to the fire.
Also helped other people get their rv out from thier backyard, unsure if their house is still standing.